Rainn Wilson says ‘The Office US’ was too “politically incorrect” to be made today
The Office US star Rainn Wilson has claimed the sitcom was too “politically incorrect” to be made in 2026.
Wilson, who portrayed Dwight Schrute in the sitcom, which ran from 2005 to 2013, believes that its breed of humour wouldn’t fly in the current era.
“I do feel like you couldn’t make The Office today,” Wilson remarked to Fox News Digital, before adding, “I think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was. And I do, I do kind of miss that.”
While Wilson did note that both his character and Steve Carell’s Michael Scott were shown to have a lack of “self-awareness”, portraying them to be a “boob”, he still doesn’t think that would make The Office US socially acceptable today.
He claimed, “We milked that for a lot of great, really inappropriate stuff. But even with the fact that painting that character as just an idiot, I don’t think you could get away with it today.”
This is not the first time that Wilson has made comments of this nature, previously singling out the ‘A Benihana Christmas’ episode as an example of The Office US‘ offensive nature.
Wilson said on The Last Laugh podcast in 2025, “Listen you know, the Benihana Christmas episode where Michael and Andy draw with a sharpie on one of the Asian women that they’ve brought back to the Christmas party is jaw droppingly kind of horrific.”
The comic actor added, “They’re clueless and in their cluelessness they’re racist and insensitive, and they’re always saying the wrong thing. And that’s Michael, Dwight and Andy — and Kevin for that matter.”
He also described it as “a show based around clueless, insensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways”.
Despite Wilson not believing that The Office US could exist in 2026, spin-off The Paper, which is set in the same universe, was recently renewed for a second season after premiering last year.
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